To the original question: They just let Jews register themselves as such. And also, let's not forget the basic method when somebody was suspected: "pants down!". All that despite Nazi "racial science" and sophisticated rules on who's what part of Jew.

Birth certificate is plausible it seems to be the best record for identification.

I don't mean to deviate I read the diary of Anne Frank and I cried afterwards it was horrible how she came to her death....Hitler was a sociopath and to add to the craziness historians believe he had Jewish heritage although it was never proven.

To the original question: They just let Jews register themselves as such. And also, let's not forget the basic method when somebody was suspected: "pants down!". All that despite Nazi "racial science" and sophisticated rules on who's what part of Jew.

^^ Now you can't go wrong with this method.

Also, when the Nazi party came to power, they made all of the Jews to add a prefix to their names like "Israel" for the men and "Sarah" for the women, so that it will be easy to track them down later.

I once watched a movie where the Nazis captured a couple of Soviet soldiers and they took out the ones with curly hair and shot them because they suspected them to be Jews. Now that method is not that efficient, obviously.

However, since then every time I see a person with curly hair I automatically assume they are Jewish. Seriously, I have been watching way too many historical movies and that's not good...

Originally Posted by rehabnonono
How could the Soviet Union grow to such a huge country, if the population was 180 million at the time of the Revolution and they then lost 120 million to communists counter-revolutionaries et al?

and then there was this...

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Originally Posted by beorna

The Russian Empire lost some territories. Does somebody has the population figures of these countries? If yes, then we first should subtract them from these 180 million in 1917 (if these figure is correct). Then one could at least compare it with the 1926 census (if this is correct).
If there was a population loss in these period, it is not necessary one caused by the Soviets, but probably first of all by the civil war and other wars, even by the white and the western support.

Birth certificate is plausible it seems to be the best record for identification.

I don't mean to deviate I read the diary of Anne Frank and I cried afterwards it was horrible how she came to her death....Hitler was a sociopath and to add to the craziness historians believe he had Jewish heritage although it was never proven.

Right and the point I am trying to make is that there were many people like Anne Frank who were in hiding could not be physically inspected. Inspections did not find six million Jews. They were found by computer punch cards cross checking census information with names of hidden Jews already registered as just Germans or Poles etc. in those areas.

The first German estimates put the figure at 400,000 Jews. Then the IBM computers found an astonishing 2 million people, many of whom never identified as Jews. That's when the really large scale mass murder took place. Without the computers they would have found around a little over one million Jews... but with the computers they found 6 million many whom claimed they did not even know they had a Jewish relative.

Right and the point I am trying to make is that there were many people like Anne Frank who were in hiding could not be physically inspected. Inspections did not find six million Jews. They were found by computer punch cards cross checking census information with names of hidden Jews already registered as just Germans or Poles etc. in those areas.

The first German estimates put the figure at 400,000 Jews. Then the IBM computers found an astonishing 2 million people, many of whom never identified as Jews. That's when the really large scale mass murder took place. Without the computers they would have found around a little over one million Jews... but with the computers they found 6 million many whom claimed they did not even know they had a Jewish relative.

How could have the Nazis used computers when my countryman John Atanasoff invented them in 1942 and at that time many Jews were already dead?